The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-04-21
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

NEWSPAPER 'HAwKERs, including men, boys,
women and girls, in London, are said to number
not less than 1000, majority of them living
from hand TO mouth.
A BEGGAR in Spain is a gentleman and you
address him always in formal and courteous
language Brother you say, when he impor-
tunes you, may God put it into your heart 10
deprive me of the pleasure of your society,
The average Pfute squaw isn't much of weak
vessel. The other day enc of them in Austin,
New, took three flfty-pound sacks of flour on
her back; then on top of this placed yearling
pappOoSe, when she trotted of as briskly as a
young colt.
THEY are building squirrel cage for men in
Oswego, N. Y. The cell moves slowly round
continually, carrying the prisoner with it. The
rotary motion is to prevent prisoners from
breaking through the walls They don't re-
main in one spot long enough for hole to be
made.
TWENTY FIVE YEARS AGO Albert Ellis, of Wins
low, Me-, filled up clay pipe for good smoke.
He used only half of its contents, for on the next
day he went to war. He survived and came
home, but did not finish that smoke until few
days ago, when he happened to find the old pipe,
partly empty, just as he had left 1t.
THEY tell in Buffalo of faithful workman
gagged in extra dangerous work, who injured his
hand very severely. AS the surgeon was at
tending to him the foreman hurried in and
said: Sam, what time was it when you got
hurt?' About o'clock. Why do you ask"
80 may know when to dock you"
Four WEEKS AGO Abbie Lindsey, an insane
pauper, escaped from the almshouse at Pres
colt, Mass, and persisted in the snow The in
vestigation that has followed shows great abuses
at the almshouse; inmates confined in small
and filthy rooms ;others restrained by ball and
chain on their legs, and others punished by
ducking and horsewhipping.
FIFTY YEARS AGO when James and Israel
Adams were and 10 years old, their parents,
who lived at Shawan, Md, died, and the boys
were separated to live with relatives. The other
day James, who is now business man in PhIla-
delphia, learned that Israel was in Pikesvile,
Md, and he went there and saw him. The
meeting of the long separated brothers is said
to have been affecting.
So low were the funds in the public treasury
of the United States at the close of 1889, that
the Attorney General and several Congressman
were indebted to the private credit of Alexander
Hamilton their Secretary of State, to discharge
their personal expenses. President Washington
was Obliged to pass note to Tobias Leer, his
private secretary, to meet his household ex.
penSeS, the note being discounted at the rate or
two per cent. month, and members Of Con-
gresS were paid in due bills.
THE London correspondent TO the New York
Herald describes curious accident which oc-
CURED at NewcaStleon-Tyne recently, as fol
lows: During performance by the Carl Rosa
troupe of the opera ''Nordisa," the storm bust
ness was on. The sound of thunder was made
by heavy cannon balls rolling along cutters
lined with sheet iron, which were twenty feet
above the stage. In some unaccountable way
one ball was dislodged Immediately after vivid
scenic flash of lightning and fell in the midst OF
group in the wings, between Miss Julia Gay
lord and some other performers who were wait
ing for their call, and landed upon the head of
stage carpenter who has since died.
AT banquet given to Mr.. Theodore Metcalf
by the Boston Druggists Association Oliver
Wendell Holmes gave his opinion of apothe-
carries as follows: Il have always had a great
opinion of the medical advice of apothecaries
The truth is, they put up the prescriptions of all
the best physicians in the place in which they
live, and they have the very cream of all their
wisdom at their fingers ends. So, when have
myself been suffering from any slight bodily in
convenience, am ashamed to say-or ought to
be, perhaps-instead of going to a professional
brother, have quietly crept into the back room
and asked Mr. Metcalf what such and such a
doctor was in the habit of prescribing.
A PECULIAR FIRE happened in a suburb of
Boston lately, and but for its timely discovery
and extinguishment would have been added to
the list of fires from 'incendiarism, defective
| iue," rats or any of the causes attributed
where nothing is known of the cause The lady
| of the house was going out to call, but heard q
noise in the upper part of the house Just as she
| was about to shut the outside door behind her
After some hesitation she reentered the house
| went upstairs, and found the chamber carpet
| burning quite briskly. Upon it's extinguishment
| it appears that the breeze from an open window
| had blown the match-safe from the bureau to
| the floor, broken it, and lighted The matches.
The ballet corps of the Paris Grand Opera
consists of 115 women and girls. There are three
stars ten first subjects, twenty-five second sub
| jects, three divisions of coryphees or leaders,
6ril1a daJ Int
| walkers and the infant class, or rats" The
| pupils receive 40c. each time they appear; the
| young ladies of the quadriles from $40 TO $40 a
month; the coryphees from $50 to $50; the sub
| jects or those who dance steps outside the en-
semble figures $50 to $500; the stars from IS 900
| to $4,000 per year. These last-named amounts
| are less than the salaries paid in former days
| Thus Taglioni gained 1920 year; Fanny
Ellsler, 5000; Carlotta Gris S., 400; La CeiTito
$1,000, and La Rosati, $4,000. The organization
| of the Grand Opera ballet dates from 1918 and
| was decreed by Louis XIV. The grand monarch
| even wrote the regulations for the first ballet
| corps with his own hand.
ONLY Mr.. Hayes, of the citizens who have
been Chief Executive of the country, is now
| living, aside from the present occupant of this
| responsible office. But there are eleven ladies'
| now living each of whom have for a time been
| mistress of the White House, two of whom
Mrs. Semple and Mrs. Julia Gardiner Tyler
were successfully the first lady of the land un-
| der the far-away Tyler administration. Mrs
| Polk is still living, as also the widows of
| Presidents Grant and Garfield, and the
| wife of President Hayes. Mrs. Harriet
| Lane Johnston was mistress of the White
| House during the administration of her
| bachelor uncle, James Buchanan. Mrs Patter.
| son, daughter of President johnson, did the
honors during the term of her father as did
| Mrs. McElroy, sister of the late President Ar
| thur. Miss Rose Elizabeth Cleveland and Mrs
| Cleveland each have been lady of the White
| House during the present term. Mrs. Cleveland
| is so young that it is easily possible that her
| name may figure In the list of those who have
been wives Of Presidents fifty years from now,
and she would not attain then the age of Mrs
| Polk, or the equally venerable Mrs Madison
who lived many years after the death of her
husband.
THE power of a cat duet at midnight to at
tract bootjacks and other convenient missiles
has become proverbal The other evening a
grimallSin concert was in progress in Charles
town. Mass, yard, and the earsplitting strains
were anything but soothing lullaby to the res
dents. Unable to endure the noise the gentle
man on whose premises the concert was being
held dressed himself, and going down to the
kitchen, armed himself with dipper Of scald.
ing water and prepared to give the disturbers
OF his rest a copious dose of the hot LIQUID
Opening stealthily his back door he stepped
IN the yard just in time not to realize his de-
sire, but to get upon the side of the head a
blow from boot, that brought
him to the ground overturning
the Scaldng water about his own thinlv.cla1